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VIDEO: El Camino Park set for reservoir, renovation

Palo Alto city officials attend groundbreaking ceremony Monday

This conceptual rendering of the "post-construction appearance" of El Camino Park shows the pump station located behind the soccer field. The rendering is posted on the City of Palo Alto's website.

Palo Alto Mayor Sid Espinosa and City Manager Jim Keene spoke at El Camino Park Monday (Oct. 17) during a special groundbreaking ceremony as work begins on a 2.5 million emergency water reservoir at the park. Construction will include a pump station and complete renovation of the popular park.

The project is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2013. For more information about the renovation, visit www.cityofpaloalto.org/news.

I am curious why they chose this spot instead of say the old Lagunita Lake bed which has been dry for years - the work could have been done without interupting anything, the cost would have been much lower and the resevoir could have been bigger,

Posted by Palo Parent
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Oct 18, 2011 at 1:05 pm

John: Um, The annual bonfires at Lake Lagunita were stopped because of an endangered salamander living there . . . I don't suppose putting in a underground or otherwise reservoir there would be less disruptive than a bonfire?